"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:05:44 -0700, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
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>> And I could harvest their progeny. But
>> of course I won't do that, because it is illegal.
>
> I'm pretty sure that's how many invasive species came into being in
> the wild.
>
Yup. Like the giant snakehead which is mainly used as a food item in Asia.
Someone here locally admitted to releasing some and it was as if they'd
unleashed Godzilla the way the press reacted. They've even made movies
about it.